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Saturday, September 21, 2013

WELCOME TO BOOKIN' WITH BINGO'S"ARE YOU LISTENING? DAY"
I AM EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE TODAY'S
AUDIO BOOK CHOICE....

FANGIRL

Read by Rebecca Lowman & Maxwell Caulfield

BY RAINBOW ROWELL

ABOUT THE AUDIO BOOK:

In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories? Open her heart to someone? Or will she just go on living inside somebody else’s fiction?

ABOUT THE NARRATORS:

Rebecca Lowman is a performer of stage, film, and television. In
addition to playing the lead in Eve of Understanding, for which she won
Best Actress at the 2006 Boston Film Festival, she has appeared in the
television series Burn Notice, Private Practice,Criminal Minds, The Shield, Big Love, Without a Trace, Cold Case, and Will & Grace.

Maxwell Caulfield is an English-born film, stage and television
actor best known for his role as Michael Carrington in the musical film
Grease 2 and as Miles Colby in The Colbys and its parent show Dynasty. He has more than 70 credits in film, television and onstage. In the 2000s he was a cast member on the British soap opera Emmerdale.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Rainbow Rowell writes books.
Sometimes she writes about adults (Attachments and Landline).Sometimes she writes about teenagers (Eleanor & Park and Fangirl).But she always writes about people who talk a lot. And people who feel like they’re screwing up. And people who fall in love.When she’s not writing, Rainbow is reading comic books, planning
Disney World trips and arguing about things that don’t really matter in
the big scheme of things.She lives in Nebraska with her husband and two sons.

“As funny as it is embarrassing, and as charming as it is true-to-geek-life . . . Fangirl is a cute and poignant read for fangirls and fanboys of all ages.”— Tor.com

"I loved Rainbow Rowell's book ELEANOR & PARK and can't wait to get to listen to FANGIRL while I am on a break from blogging. I hope many of you who haven't experienced the delight that is Rainbow Rowell will check out her books"--Karen (aka "Bingo" from BOOKIN' WITH BINGO)

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comments:

I don't tend to listen to audio books too often. I think it's because I can't fully concentrate while I'm driving and when I get home there are just too many distractions! I did read Attachments by this author and loved it, so I've put this book on my wish list.